![]() ![]() ![]() At White Oak, she pulled back far enough in many of the studio portraits for a fringe of the woods to frame her linen backdrop. Still, the photographs convey her signature blend of documentary and fantasy. It was an opportunity to study the nude, and you`re working with people who expressed themselves with the body,'' Leibovitz says. ''What White Oak allowed me to do was explore this idea of the body in a way I don`t always have the opportunity to do in other work. ![]() ![]() She also approached the spirit of dance in striking metaphor-dancers swimming, dancers rushing nude in a sylvan blur through the forest, dancer Rob Besserer folded like light on water as it rushed over stones where he lay posed for one photograph. But at White Oak, Leibovitz also photographed in other settings, exchanging the pristine clarity of the posed portrait for the gritty immediacy of rehearsal when the spirit of dance suggests a relentless master of intensity and discipline. The elegant, luminous outdoor portraits make up most of the exhibit of 16-by-20- and 20-by-24-inch prints. The photographs move from the whimsical-Baryshnikov standing on a piano looking very much like a statue of Mercury-to the classical-Nancy Colahan in a lighter-than-air leap. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |